water carriage

English

Noun

water carriage (plural water carriages)

1. Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.
2. (obsolete) A vessel or boat.
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:

     If one considers that paſſage, it seems possible to go generally by Water-carriage from China to Spain without entring into the Ocean

References

• “water carriage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.